Word: rub
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...what do you learn from Sudoku? Where's the allusive fun? The numbers in a Sudoku box are dry, curt, numbing; they live only in their own, square, self-contained universe; they refer to nothing but themselves. Numbers lack the allusiveness of words, their reverberations, their playfulness - how they rub up against one another and transform themselves. Add an S to comic and get cosmic; add one to laughter and get slaughter. You don't get this alchemy with numbers...
...adjectives lavished on a dish can be as important as the names of the ingredients. What would you rather eatplain grilled chicken or flame-broiled chicken with a garlic rub? Scrambled eggs or farm-fresh eggs scrambled in butter? "Think 'flavors and tastes,'" Rapp says, repeating a favorite mantra. "Words like crunchy and spicy give the customer a better idea of what something will be like." Longer, effusive descriptions should be reserved for signature items. Especially the profitable ones...
...demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town's population has grown to 70,000, many of them well-salaried young people who grew up with the town. They still go all-out during Cristo de los Remedios, but now there are plenty of other...
...years the mountain setting of Boulder, Colo., provided a scenic backdrop for this intimate festival, which gave audience members a chance to rub shoulders with the stars of tomorrow. (Three Moondance winners have gone on to be nominated for Academy Awards.) This year the stars won't have as far to travel: the seventh annual Moondance festival will be held later this month in Hollywood...
...time the pastas appeared (I hadn't realized that the first 35 dishes were starters), my notes grew less reliable," writes Buford. "According to one entry, there were eight pastas ... followed by an instruction to [Buford's wife] from Mario--'You will eat the pasta, or I will rub the shrimp across your breasts'--which is confusing because I don't remember any shrimp." (Batali says, chuckling, that he doesn't recall uttering those words...